Quest on PP periods

I got a pp period when she was three months. I am now waiting for my second period and it seems late by my typical cycles... My question is have most of you ladies had regular cycles once your period returned or is it coming to get a cycle and then skip months or weeks before getting another one?
What am I supposed to do... Take hpts on a regular basis on the off chance I may be preg? I don't think I am.

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I'm a little over 4 weeks pp and I had my first pp cycle start 2 weeks after little one was born. I was lucky my bleeding stopped at 10 days. And I ovulated yesterday so it seems my cycle is back to normal. I've ebf all five of my babies and my cycle are normal by 4 months. I do have 2 kids 11 months apart and I didn't think it was possible I could be pregnant again.

My post partum cycles have always been all over the place. Especially the first full cycle. With my daughter I got my PPAF at 7.5 months, and my first pp cycle was 45 days. My norm is 30/31 days. I do buy a bunch of cheap tests to use during that period because we do not prevent while waiting for PPAF and I tested every 2 weeks or so after the baby started solids.

with both my kids, I had PPAF at 4 months. After #1, I had two normal cycles and get pregnant during the second cycle, after #2 I had an extra long cycle (would have been around 45 days) and got pregnant during that cycle. Normally, my cycles are 30 days, except when I'm stressed or heavily exercising, then I jump to 45 or 60 days.

When your cycle first returns it is very normal for it to be irregular, ESP when it's so early in the pp phase. You usually ovulate later than is typical, making your cycle longer and your period seem late.

I didn't usually get ppaf for a year, and often closer to 1 1/2 years. Sometimes I started back in like clockwork, but I can think of at least two times when I had the first ppaf, then nothing for 6-8 weeks, then regular cycles. Both times, I wondered if I was pg, but wasn't.